Improvement in paper bags



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo WILLIAM T. JORDAN, OF OHAGRIN FALLS, ANDPIERRE MEQUILLET, OF CLEVELAND, ASSIGNORS TO ADAMS @t OO., OF GHAGRINFALLS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,009, dated January9, 187? application fled November 15, 1876.

To all whom 1t may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM T. JORDAN, of Chagrin Falls, in the countyof Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, and PIERRE MEQUILLET,

of Cleveland, in said county and State, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Paper Bags, of which the following is aspecification:

It is well known to those skilled in the art that a paper bag, to becommercially successful in a high degree, should be ornamental inappearance, as Well as possessing useful qualities, which desideratum isgenerally attained by serrating or scalloping the top or edges of thebag.

rIhe objection to bags thus made is the great difficulty experienced inopening them under peculiar circumstances, as when the user can employonly one hand, the other being engaged in holding the measure or traycontaining the article to be deposited in the bag; aud to remedy thisdefect, while preserving the ornamental appearance of the bag, manyattempts have been made, among which may be mentioned that of nicking aspace in one edge of the bag during the process of manufacture, leavingone edge of the bag projecting slightly above its next contiguous edge,making the scallops of comparatively large area alternating with eachother, and in other ways; but, so far as we are aware, they arepractically and commercially unsuccessful and objectionable.

The object of our invention is to combine in a bag, in a cheap,effective, and simple mauner, the advantages and merchantable qualitiesof the serrated or scalloped edged bag, While at the same time renderingit capable of being easily opened under any circumstances, which ends weattain by forming the top or edge of the bag partly serrated orscalloped and partly plain or smooth.

The accompanying drawing represents a View, in perspective, of ourimproved bag.

We provide the top or edges of a bag, A, during the process ofmanufacture, or afterward, if preferred, with serrations or scallops a,and with intervening plain or smooth spaces a', one or more, as may benecessary or desirable, the plain spaces on one edge being directlyopposite corresponding spaces on the other.

We prefer to manufacture our improved bags Awith the top entirelyserrated or scalloped, except two plain spaces, the width of which maybe varied, said spaces being l0- cated at suitable distances apart, asshown, to adapt the bag readily to be opened from either side but wecontemplate, in practice, under certain circumstances, to provide thebag With but one plain surface, and locate it at or near the center forconvenience, but the number of plain spaces and their location can bevaried within certain limits Without departing from the spirit of ourinvention.

By our improvements, it will be obvious that We attain the desideratumof a cheap, neat, and superior bag, and one that can be easily openedunder any circumstances, the importance and value of which will beappreciated without further explanation.

We claim as of our own invention- As a new article of manufacture, apaper bag, the top of which is partly plain or smooth and partlyserrated or scalloped, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

W. T. JORDAN. PIERRE MEQUILLET. Witnesses:

J oHN OALE, M. G. BULL.

